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That worked with a stylus rather than fingertip input. The stylus has a finer point-resolution than a finger, making for more effective touch actions. I do mi
by dredmorbius 6mo ago
That worked with a stylus rather than fingertip input.
The stylus has a finer point-resolution than a finger, making for more effective touch actions.
I do miss my old PalmOS devices....
- zozbot234 6mo agoPlenty of tablets and touchscreens support stylus input though, including Apple Pencil.
- dredmorbius 6mo agoThat wasn't my point. Graffiti is not possible without a stylus, or at the very least is vastly less effective. Android and iOS are both "finger first" interfaces. You can use a stylus, but you don't have to. And everything is designed around finger-fatness. Icons, gestures, on-screen keyboard.
- skydhash 6mo agoI much prefer the stylus. You only need to see artist that paint and do sculpting with Wacom displays to see that this has a much better potential than finger-based touch. The latter is ok for light consumption, but for not so much for productivity.
- dredmorbius 6mo agoStylus for pointing. Hard keyboard for serious text input, though Graffiti isn't bad, and is significantly preferable to a soft keyboard. Finger input is more convenient, for very casual use. Stylus suffers from both loss of the stylus itself (particularly when these are integrated into storage on the device itself), and inconsistent sizing of styli, even by the same manufacturer and nominal device model and version. For the latter, Motorola's Stylus Android phones retain the same model and version number while the stylus dimensions change sufficiently to make them incompatible. This may induce a certain level of frustration....